Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other two decades before." The Daily Telegraph editorialized that Galbraith's propositions were based on "sleight of mouth." Economist Colin Clark was amazed at Galbraith's "grand and illusory dreams of all-powerful industrial corporations untouched by competition," and suggested that he observe a "cautious unwillingness to extend theory beyond its safe limits...
...than Hope and Graham can scarcely be imagined. The fact that they could challenge the war for attention was evidence that the fighting had slacked off even before this week's formal 48-hour Christmas truce went into effect. A good many people, moreover, were trying hard to extend the lull into a permanent ceasefire...
...comparison will suffice. The introduction of universal, compulsory education in the 19th century gradually transformed American society. This was the great change. Present efforts to add a few years of schooling at one end or another, to extend the curriculum and improve facilities, while useful and important, cannot possibly have the impact of that first innovation. To the extent that the new programs are directed to persons who have trouble coping with the education system as it is, they will be even more costly and marginal in their effects. It is one thing to be concerned about a high school...
...agency, and it is unlikely that he would accept even the most humble revision of Selective Service without making a scene. It is not that the general is oblivious to public opinion. He goes out of his way to cater to it. He said of the 1955 bill to extend the draft: "Let us hope, pray or what not that the thing expires on a year not divisible by two. There are several reasons that I need not explain to you why this is so." Elections, for example, are held on years divisible...
...Radcliffe Government Association voted yesterday to allow Radcliffe dormitories to extend weekend parietals to midnight. The RGA also voted to increase the total number of parietal hours from...